La la la [Full] · Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith

112 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-31 and 34-51, and 6 more places -- 83% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
LA LA LA [FULL] · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 5 sections: 92 keep time, 1 is a stop and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-80.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS1AS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La la la [Full]?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is La la la [Full] hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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